Road Trips

Sunday June 15, 2008 - North Fork to Lee Vining Our night at the South Fork was interesting. The motel owner actually gave us our money back as soon as we walked in the room and flipped on the air conditioner. When we turned the juice on, it started a ...

Saturday June 14, 2008 - Bakersfield to North Fork I guess Kenny’s zipper didn’t have the tensile strength to hold back the sheer force of his manaconda. It ended up blowing out, so before heading out for the day, we had to make a pitstop at Cyclegear to get him ...

Friday June 13, 2008 - San Luis Obispo to Bakersfield We rolled out of SLO and headed towards route 33 where we would be meeting up with Ed in Ojai. He was heading up from SoCal to meet us. Taft, California was once named Moron. You could smell the oil ...

Thursday June 12, 2008 - San Francisco to San Luis Obispo We were at the Dubbleju Motorcycle Rental place promptly at 9:00 to pick up our bikes for the next 9 days. The three of us were outfitted with BMW R1150Rs. Before I got to know my girl more intimately, ...

We arrived in San Francisco on Wednesday morning after having had the most fitful sleep the night before. You would think that being up half the night and a 7:00 am flight would be a recipe for sleep on the 6+ hour plane ride, but it was not to be ...

I was poking through my pictures from the last few weeks and found that I've got a couple related to gas pumps. I guess the folks at the pump below in Virginia were just makin' it up as they went along It isn't news to anyone who hasn't been dwelling ...

It was really sad to see the train depot in Marlinton had recently caught fire and burned. I remembered it from the last time we passed through about 2 years ago. Hopefully the town can gather enough support to rebuild this landmark. http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200803280680 http://www.pocahontastimes.com/index.php?id=168 ...

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Out in the wilds of Unger, WV stands a man. A Muffler Man. I finally had my opportunity to visit the Farnham Collossi on the way down to West Virginia this past weekend. He is indeed a perfect specimen. Not to be missed if you're in the area ...

Today, I spent some time organizing some of the thousands of digital photos that I've amassed over the last decade. I love this excercise and find it especially sweet when you can be pulled back to a moment in time. Feeling the air, remembering the chill, the smells, the sense ...

Call me a sentimental fool. I was poking around looking for something on my computer earlier and I got off on a tangent browsing through photo folders. You know how that is right? I came across a folder of pictures from Wyoming, most of which I never posted. There are ...

The family went to Bermuda for a long labor day weekend. Despite my initial resistance, I concede it was an awesome thing to do. It was incredibly beautiful. ... Photos Under the Cut ...

..in the Champlain Room. Yea, I know. Horrible. So what? I'm sitting here in my pajamas after two days of cleaning closets and sifting thru the remnants of a life on paper and that's all I got. On Friday August 3rd, we crossed out of New York on route 2 ...

Friday August 3, 2007 Boldt Castle on Heart Island Thousand Islands, NY Http://www.boldtcastle.com After an excruciatingly hot ride from Long Island to Thousand Islands via the Adirondacks, I finally have one more tick mark on my life's To-Do List. We visited Boldt Castle. The only way to get to the ...

Hello world here's a song that we're singing C'mon Get Happy A whole lotta lovin’ is what we'll be bringing We'll Make you Happy I'll tell ya. You just never know what you're going to see out on the road. Kenny and I were snaking thru the Catskills heading up ...

I popped out of bed on Saturday to a sunny, 60 degree morning. Well, I shouldn't say popped. It was something more akin to a zombie-like drag over the edge of the bed. For some reason I was feeling exceptionally sleepy. But... Time waits for no man and all that ...

Friday morning I rolled out of the driveway and into the morning at 5:30 heading for points... away. I wasn't armed with much of a plan other than to just get off of this island before the morning rush clogged my escape routes across the bridges. As I meandered up ...

In the wee hours of Friday morning, the mighty Muffler Man of Elmsford, NY intently ponders the Bunyon-esque nature of his beard. Just look at him. Do you see that faraway look in his eyes? Surely he is reminiscing quietly of a time when he was shorn clean, free of his stubbled prison. 'Curse ...

I woke up to overcast skies. My motorcycle sat alone in the hotel parking lot near Killington, Vermont. It's a familiar lot that is so often filled with the smiles, bikes and happy faces of my riding friends. Today it was me all alone. I was going to go ride ...

...a little rain must fall. The steam rolled along the blacktop, slicking up the already treacherous tar-snakes of Mass. Route 23. Thursday afternoon I packed up my tankbag and headed north to Vermont. I seemed to be chasing the tail of the rain and was thankful I hadn't caught up ...

I've been to Sleep. Figuratively and literally it would seem. Did you miss me? It has been a strange spring. I've done almost no riding at all due to peculiar circumstances that seem to be circling around like a storm. Good old dealer-service incompetence rendered me stuck on the side ...

Life is so very mysterious. My immediate universe is pretty small in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes I get lucky and go on a journey. Sometimes its only to my backyard, other times its a little bit further. I just found this pic from 2005 in my archive. It ...

...is paved with good intentions.My riding trip was a bust in terms of riding. But good times were had nonetheless. My bike blew up, sorta. So i drove my car down to Tennessee to meet up with my pals at the Gap last week. I snapped this pic driving back ...

Wow. Wowee-wow-wow. Yesterday was quite arguably the nicest riding weather so far this year. It was just delightful. Kenny & I took a ride to Massachusetts, to stretch our legs a little and prepare our rumps for a road trip. These bums of ours have been too long in their ...

Saturday I had a whole day all to myself. No place to go, no place to be, just me the sunshine and a the desire to kick this spring fever to the curb once and for all. I left my house around 7 am, heading for points north. Before I ...

EVENT: The 89th Annual Crotona Midnight Run DATE: February 11, 2007 12:00 am DETAILS: Held by the Ramapo Motorcycle Club since 1999http://www.ramapomc.org/OpenEventSched.htm Originally held by the Crotona Motorcycle Club, starting in 1911. The Crotona Midnight Run is a timed road ride in which riders must follow a distributed route sheet ...

2007 CROTONA MIDNIGHT RUN! A CERTAIN FRIEND:Croton Run sat night at midnight KENNY: yeah I saw that A CERTAIN FRIEND: take one of my bikes lets go KENNY: man, thats gonna be COLLLLLD A CERTAIN FRIEND: take the ST plug in & roll A CERTAIN FRIEND: Ill take the wing ...

Covered Bridge in Massachusettes along Rte 8A Parting ways with Dr. Daytona at Sugar and Spice in Mendon, Vt. Kenny, Me and the Dr. Woodstock, NH after a sizzling ride down 118. It was like sex on wheels. The kind of ride where you get off and just wanna highfive ...

Took a ride to the Catskills~ I played a bit of hookey yesterday, taking a day off from work. It was blazing hot out. 95 in the shade in there wasn't any shade. If one more person tells me its a dry heat, i'm gonna come out swinging. The oven ...

Me & my nearly bald tire taking a break on West Virginia 219. This trip was it's last hurrah.I'm sitting here looking at this picture and recalling standing there on the side of the road after a few hours of excellent riding with my mates. We'd just passed a horse ...

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You can look at these rules and really laugh. Blurt out a nice hearty chuckle at their rediculous absurdity. That is of course, until you realize that each one of them was written becase people do those things. The rules in the men's room at the Gap. One of my ...

Saturday April 22, 2006 The alarm rang out in the wee, dark hours of Saturday morning, telling me it was time to get rolling. I don't know why I bother to set the alarm when I am going to travel, I barely sleep a wink anyway. I'm always filled with ...

Back from the Gap. "Hmm.. how DID i get this sexy? " Overlook at the Dragon - Click to view enlarged: DRDaytona, Me, VifferVixen,Crudmop,L8RG8R,IRR,Windshear Saturday April 22, 2006 The alarm rang out in the wee, dark hours of Saturday morning, telling me it was time to get rolling. I don't ...

I rolled away from my garage at 5:20. The sky had not yet broken. The light was still tucked away behind the clouds that spat at me as I rolled along Sound Avenue towards the Oriet Point ferry. There wasn't another soul on the road. Just me rolling along behind ...

FUZZ: Since returning back from Deal's Gap last summer, we kicked around what we would do this year for our trip. Romantically, you can fall in love with the road and you just want to go, go, go. Your head gets filled with fanciful ideas of things like, " Hey, ...

Kenny and I headed off for Wyoming, check it out: ::CLICKY:CLICKY:: ...

Fuzz and I just got back from a trip down to Deal's Gap, The Biltmore Mansion, and Fallingwater in PA. Our triplog: DAY 1: NY, PA, Fallingwater, WV KENNY: We are supposed to leave at 5a - but I wake at 4 and see that Fuzz is already awake too ...